Robert Pattinson stans are eating pretty damn good in 2026. Earlier this year, he and Zendaya combined for the A24 indie smash The Drama, with the actor in top form as a gawky wife guy confronted by a hideous secret about his beau-to-be. Give it a few weeks, and we’ll see him in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the buzziest movie of the summer; early word there has it that he’s one of the standouts of its epic ensemble, rocking up in the seriously unhinged villain mode that has become his zany forte. At some point, he’s set to play Chris Hansen (with a delightfully silly voice) in Primetime, a biopic about the Catch a Predator host. And if you’re not chomping at the bit to see how he can further dial it up in December’s Dune: Part Three—his kooky style the perfect fit for such a bizarre, batshit universe—you simply do not know ball.
Pulling together such a packed-out slate would already be a feat of superhuman endurance. (Seriously, Rob, we hope you’re getting your eight hours.) But somewhere in there, the 40-year-old has also managed to cram in a Netflix heist movie, also set to release later this year.
On paper, Here Comes the Flood sounds like one hell of a swing. Not that we know much about the plot right now: on its official blog Tudum, Netflix simply describes the flick as an “unconventional heist movie” centering on a “bank guard, a teller, and a master thief in a dead game of cons and double crosses.” That is tantalizing enough, bringing to mind shades of Ocean’s 11, Heat, and Reservoir Dogs. (The Hollywood Reporter says that “the story is set to unfold in a non-linear fashion,” a la Pulp Fiction.) But what is more impressive—and saliva-inducing—is the caliber of cast that the movie’s attracted: Denzel Washington is set to star alongside Pattinson, a pairing that screams capital-A, balls-to-the-wall acting, with Twisters’s Daisy Edgar-Jones rounding out the main trio of the ensemble.
Suffice to say, two of their generations’s respective GOATs cooking on screen together is the epitome of box office. (Well, in this case, we can at least expect it to draw huge streaming figures.) Fernando Meirelles is in the director’s chair, best known for his work on City of God, The Constant Gardener, and most recently, The Two Popes—a varied career, to say the least, but he reliably turns out the goods when it comes to good ’ol fashioned crime. Throw in how the genre has reliably put out legendary screen performances (think: Pacino and De Niro in the aforementioned Heat, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon, Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting), and this one is set to steal a shit ton of eyeballs.
This article originally appeared in British GQ.